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POPULATION-BASED EYE SCREENING STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE LANCET
Jun 2019–Zambia, a lower-middle income country, is ranked 159th by International Monetary Fund in terms of gross domestic product per capita in 2018. Like most countries which are resource constrained, most of its available healthcare capabilities are directed at tackling communicable diseases. Zambia has only 3 ophthalmologists per million population, compared to 80 per million for a developed country. In…
NOVAHEALTH HELPS MODERNIZE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS WITH ADOBE COLDFUSION
This article was originally published on Adobe Blog on 4 Jun 2019 https://theblog.adobe.com/novahealth-helps-modernize-healthcare-systems-with-adobe-coldfusion Jun 2019–Hospitals are on the cutting edge of technology, filled with lifesaving devices that are changing the face of medicine and helping people live longer, healthier lives. At the same time, many of them are dealing with siloed, outdated systems for their clinical and administrative processes—everything from…
NOVA CONGRATULATES KASIH IBU, DENPASAR FOR HOSPITAL ACCREDITATION
Jun 2019 – NOVA extends our heartiest congratulations to the staff of Kasih Ibu Hospital, Denpasar for recently attaining certification from the Indonesian Commission for Hospital Accreditation (KARS). KARS is an independent, non-profit organization that was established first in 1996 by the Government of Indonesia, to improve and ensure the quality and patient safety in hospitals by measuring compliance and…
DEEP LEARNING IN ESTIMATING PREVALENCE AND SYSTEMIC RISK FACTORS FOR DIABETIC RETINOPATHY: A MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY
Apr 2019 – In any community, the key to understanding the burden of a specific condition is to conduct an epidemiological study. The deep learning system (DLS) recently showed promising diagnostic performance for diabetic retinopathy (DR). AIM: To use DLS as the grading tool, instead of human assessors, to determine the prevalence and the systemic cardiovascular risk factors for DR…
VESALIUS IMPLEMENTED AT HONGKONG INTEGRATED ONCOLOGY CENTRE, KOWLOON
Apr 2019–Originally located in the heart of Hong Kong island, Hong Kong Integrated Oncology Centre (HKIOC) has extended in the densely populated Kowloon to serve the community in the northern part of Hong Kong, on the mainland across Victoria Harbour. Instead of implementing a local & separate IT system, users from this new medical centre connected to their centralised VESALIUS…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DIABETIC EYE DISEASE SCREENING
Mar 2019 – Systematic or national screening programs for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME), using digital fundus photography and optical coherence tomography (OCT), are currently implemented at primary care level, aiming to provide timely referral for vision-threatening DR and DME to ophthalmologists for timely treatment and vision loss prevention. However, interpretation of retinal images requires specialized knowledge…
NOVA LAUNCHES MOBILE APP TO BOOST PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Mar 2019–Nova has launched a mobile application to improve hospital’s engagement with their patients and visitors alike on most pervasive of digital platforms. The mobile app, named VESALIUS.m (mobile) is geared towards boosting customer engagement with features to allow visitors to browse for doctors within the selected hospital for information such as clinical specialisation, qualifications and working hours. With doctor…
EyRIS Founder Recognised for Contributions Towards Ophthalmology
Mar 2019–EyRIS is proud to announce that one of our founders, Prof Wong Tien Yin was awarded the Jose Rizal Medal at the 34th Congress of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) in Bangkok, Thailand on 6 Mar 2019. Each year, the Jose Rizal Medal is given to an outstanding ophthalmologist for his/her excellence in ophthalmology in the Asia-Pacific region….
METRO SPECIALIST HOSPITAL SELECTS VESALIUS
February 2019 – Nova MSC Berhad is proud to be awarded the contract to implement the full suite of VESALIUS Hospital Information System in Metro Specialist Hospital located in Sungai Petani, Kedah. What started as Bersatu Medical Centre in 1993 with only two shop lots and four specialists, quickly grew into prominence. Three years later the centre was renamed Metro…
BMJ JOURNALS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DEEP LEARNING IN OPHTHALMOLOGY
Oct 2018 – Artificial intelligence (AI) based on deep learning (DL) has sparked tremendous global interest in recent years. DL has been widely adopted in image recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing, but is only beginning to impact on healthcare. In ophthalmology, DL has been applied to fundus photographs, optical coherence tomography and visual fields. The paper discusses the…
NOVA BAGS ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CONTRACT IN SINGAPORE
Oct 2018 – novaCITYNETS Pte Ltd (NCN), has bagged a RM4.65 million contract from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore to implement and providemaintenance support for an Intelligent Code Checking System (ICCS). In a statement to the press, Nova said the contract involves the adoption of their cutting-edge solution FORNAXePlanCheck system to undertake the implementation of the ICCS in…
AN-NUR SPECIALIST HOSPITAL PARTNERS NOVA FOR EXPANSION
October 2018 – We are proud to announce that An-Nur Specialist Hospital (ANSH) has made the decision to partner Nova as part of their expansion plans to meet growing demand when they re-locate to their newly-constructed hospital at Bangi Gateway, Selangor, Malaysia. At the larger building, ANSH plans to offer high quality medical services to the surrounding community as well…